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Judge Stephen Ehlke based his ruling on a state law that doesn’t allow candidates who file nomination papers to withdraw them. That statute only allows a candidate to be removed from the ballot due to death, and Ehlke found Kennedy was essentially asking the court to create an exception to that requirement for him.
Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris, says the vice president will continue returning to Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss results from the latest Marquette University Law School poll, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, state Supreme Court hearings in two voting-related lawsuits and more.
Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, says there should be consequences for Milwaukee Public Schools after the district failed to turn in its district aid certification two weeks ago amid ongoing financial issues.
Meanwhile, the spread in the U.S. Senate race in head-to-head questions closely matched the presidential race for the first time this year after Dem incumbent Tammy Baldwin has consistently run ahead of the top of the ticket in previous Marquette polls.
In this week’s DC Wrap: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, calls for passage of a bill aiming to prevent noncitizen voting and Wisconsin House members clash over a potential government shutdown.
Dodge County’s Republican sheriff pressed three municipal clerks not to use absentee ballot drop boxes this fall, warning it could create the appearance of fraud and “degrade trust in our system,” according to records obtained by WisPolitics.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now asking the conservative 2nd District Court of Appeals to remove him from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, acknowledging that he is “running against the clock.”
Thompson said he personally delivered the message to Trump when he campaigned in La Crosse.
Trump also said he’d sign pardons on “day one” of his presidency for those convicted of charges related to violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, drawing a rebuke from Kamala Harris’ campaign.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss President Joe Biden’s visit to Westby, presidential campaign visits, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, political ad spending, controversy over student test score changes and more.
Biden announced $7.3 billion for 16 cooperatives in the country that provide electric and clean energy alternatives in rural areas and small towns. The first co-op to be chosen was Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse. The cooperative in Westby is a member coop of Dairyland.
In the filing, Kennedy’s attorneys argue Wisconsin law inappropriately creates a different standard for third-party candidates because Democrats and Republicans have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September ahead of an election to certify who their presidential nominee will be.
The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association, a nonprofit, and the Wisconsin Tribal Task Force on Cannabis are leading the “Wisconsin Wellness” effort that kicked off with a PSA video.
Speaking to Laborfest, the Minnesota guv noted he was a dues-paying member of his union while a teacher and recounted how GOP opponents once accused him in a campaign of being in the pocket of organized labor. “I said that’s a damned lie. I am the pocket. I am the pocket,” Walz said.
“We talk about a race, this one is literally a race,” Warren said on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “She has not been a candidate for a year, or even four years, like Donald Trump has. She has been our presidential candidate for something that can be counted in just a handful of weeks. And what she’s doing, everything she can to reach people all across the country.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss presidential campaign visits, November ballot access, absentee ballot drop boxes, a planned legislative audit of the Department of Public Instruction’s monitoring of school district finances, Children and Families Secretary Emilie Amundson announcing plans to leave the Evers administration and more.
The former president answered four questions from voters at the La Crosse Center, where he appeared onstage for about 30 minutes to weigh in on issues including illegal immigration, inflation, crime and national security. Trump also answered questions from the moderator, former Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an ex-Democrat who has endorsed his campaign.
The campaign finance reports — filed more than a month late — also show the two committees raised more than $1.3 million through the end of June with most of that coming from an Arkansas philanthropist.
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance says it’s “ridiculous” Robbery F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on the Wisconsin ballot in November — even though state law doesn’t provide a way to meet his request to be left off.
Judge Stephen Ehlke based his ruling on a state law that doesn’t allow candidates who file nomination papers to withdraw them. That statute only allows a candidate to be removed from the ballot due to death, and Ehlke found Kennedy was essentially asking the court to create an exception to that requirement for him.
Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris, says the vice president will continue returning to Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss results from the latest Marquette University Law School poll, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, state Supreme Court hearings in two voting-related lawsuits and more.
Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, says there should be consequences for Milwaukee Public Schools after the district failed to turn in its district aid certification two weeks ago amid ongoing financial issues.
Meanwhile, the spread in the U.S. Senate race in head-to-head questions closely matched the presidential race for the first time this year after Dem incumbent Tammy Baldwin has consistently run ahead of the top of the ticket in previous Marquette polls.
In this week’s DC Wrap: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, calls for passage of a bill aiming to prevent noncitizen voting and Wisconsin House members clash over a potential government shutdown.
Dodge County’s Republican sheriff pressed three municipal clerks not to use absentee ballot drop boxes this fall, warning it could create the appearance of fraud and “degrade trust in our system,” according to records obtained by WisPolitics.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now asking the conservative 2nd District Court of Appeals to remove him from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, acknowledging that he is “running against the clock.”
Thompson said he personally delivered the message to Trump when he campaigned in La Crosse.
Trump also said he’d sign pardons on “day one” of his presidency for those convicted of charges related to violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, drawing a rebuke from Kamala Harris’ campaign.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss President Joe Biden’s visit to Westby, presidential campaign visits, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, political ad spending, controversy over student test score changes and more.
Biden announced $7.3 billion for 16 cooperatives in the country that provide electric and clean energy alternatives in rural areas and small towns. The first co-op to be chosen was Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse. The cooperative in Westby is a member coop of Dairyland.
In the filing, Kennedy’s attorneys argue Wisconsin law inappropriately creates a different standard for third-party candidates because Democrats and Republicans have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September ahead of an election to certify who their presidential nominee will be.
The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association, a nonprofit, and the Wisconsin Tribal Task Force on Cannabis are leading the “Wisconsin Wellness” effort that kicked off with a PSA video.
Speaking to Laborfest, the Minnesota guv noted he was a dues-paying member of his union while a teacher and recounted how GOP opponents once accused him in a campaign of being in the pocket of organized labor. “I said that’s a damned lie. I am the pocket. I am the pocket,” Walz said.
“We talk about a race, this one is literally a race,” Warren said on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “She has not been a candidate for a year, or even four years, like Donald Trump has. She has been our presidential candidate for something that can be counted in just a handful of weeks. And what she’s doing, everything she can to reach people all across the country.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss presidential campaign visits, November ballot access, absentee ballot drop boxes, a planned legislative audit of the Department of Public Instruction’s monitoring of school district finances, Children and Families Secretary Emilie Amundson announcing plans to leave the Evers administration and more.
The former president answered four questions from voters at the La Crosse Center, where he appeared onstage for about 30 minutes to weigh in on issues including illegal immigration, inflation, crime and national security. Trump also answered questions from the moderator, former Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an ex-Democrat who has endorsed his campaign.
The campaign finance reports — filed more than a month late — also show the two committees raised more than $1.3 million through the end of June with most of that coming from an Arkansas philanthropist.
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance says it’s “ridiculous” Robbery F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on the Wisconsin ballot in November — even though state law doesn’t provide a way to meet his request to be left off.